The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at their belt; now they have calculators.
ALAN KAYIn success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books.
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Change is easy, except for the changed part.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Point of view is worth 80 IQ points
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language.
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Bad criticism drives good criticism out of circulation. You just can’t criticize anything.
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They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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Much of the debugging has to be done by others.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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